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Sacred Hunger - Paperback

by Barry Unsworth
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barry UnsworthPublish date:2017-08-22Pages:640
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525434115ISBN-10:525434119UPC:9780525434115Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, African American & BlackBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCGZFAK2NV
Winner of the Booker Prize

Liverpool, 1752. William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry the wealthy woman whom he loves. His last resort is a slave ship, one that will take him to the Guinea coast, where he will trade for human cargo, then embark on the infamous Middle Passage. When disease ravages the ship and the African prisoners mutiny, William's profit-seeking venture falls apart. Slaves and sailors alike will join together to found a utopian community on the coast of Florida--not knowing that the vengeful, younger Kemp is in pursuit. Unsworth's tour de force is a profound meditation on the sacred hunger--the greed--couched within human nature, animating the slave trade. It is a novel that transcends its setting, illuminating larger truths that resonate to this day.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525434115ISBN-10:525434119UPC:9780525434115Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, African American & BlackBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCGZFAK2NV
Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 and grew up in a mining town in northeast England. Descended from a long line of coal miners, he was the first Unsworth to escape the mines. He attended Manchester University and published his first novel, The Partnership, in 1966. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Ruby in Her Navel, longlisted for the Booker Prize; Pascali's Island and Morality Play, both shortlisted for the Booker; and Sacred Hunger, co-winner of the Booker Prize. He died in 2012 at the age of eighty-one.
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